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"under the strain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone is feeling a lot of stress, or that something is being pushed to its limits. For example: "The athletes were under the strain of the intense competition."
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College networks are buckling under the strain.
One man passed out under the strain.
No wonder the NHS is buckling under the strain.
Mobile phone networks are expected to suffer under the strain.
The sites appeared to be holding up under the strain.
"A psychiatric breakdown under the strain," concluded Theodore White.
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Freeways grow ever-more clogged with traffic, and infrastructure bends and cracks under the strain.
The Internet creaked and groaned, and some parts burned out under the strain.
Its co-director, Helen Shaw, said: "The current system is cracking up under the strain.
The antiquated voting system is creaking under the strain.
Families split up under the strain of mortgage payments.
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